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  1. Speculations must be backed up by evidence or some sort of proof. If your speculation is untestable, or you don't give us evidence (or a prediction that is testable), your thread will be moved to the Trash Can. If you expect any scientific input, you need to provide a case that science can measure.
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  1. Started by Farsight,

    I know this might not sound like physics, but bear with me, because Time is Money, isn't it? Show me some money, I say. So you pull out a £10 note. We both know that’s money right? Wrong. Check the small print: “I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds”. Your tenner isn’t really money. It’s what’s known in the trade as a promissary note. A mere promise to pay money. Basically it’s an IOU, but from the Bank of England. OK if you’re in the States or Oz maybe you don’t get the small print, but your buck or buckaroo is still a promissary note, a mere IOU, it’s not really money. OK you say. How about this here penny? You ha…

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  2. Started by foodchain,

    If you somehow were able to attach a line to the moon, for example a chain(does not have to be though), and then attach it to earth what would that look like visually, and also what effects would that have in a 24 hour period, and could you climb it? *I have no idea on where to place such a thread or even if its acceptable on this forum.

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  3. Started by spiritnl,

    There were some posts about this subject before. But I want to take the debate to another level. I am not looking for dumb posts like 'Crap, it's total bullshit' The reason I am posting this is to find out what people on science forums think about this subject. And to make it more interesting, I state psychokinesis is real. This topic contains a poll too. Please give your opinion. Psychokinesis Moving/affecting matter with the power of thoughts. Edit: before typing any more, please note my primary language isn't English. I'll try to type proper English.

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  4. Started by -I-,

    Philosophy of -I- There is only one identity in the universe. -I- what you are born with, an identity. What makes the living think or feel to themselves, I feel that, I want that, I am here, this is me? Darwin's theory of evolution rightly says we have a common, unbroken line back to a single ancestor. (one of the pond slime) We are all the 4.5 billion year old, (from then), children of this simple life. At some point this simple life divided its body into two living organisms, starting the process of evolution. From looking in every conceivable place I have found nobody has addressed what happened to -I- at the time of division. Simply put, if -I- am cut in tw…

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  5. Started by Farsight,

    GRAVITY EXPLAINED You probably think of gravity as curved spacetime. Surprisingly Einstein didn’t, not quite. And neither should you. To understand gravity you have to take the ontological view. You have to learn to see what’s there. And to do that, you have to put time to one side, because time isn’t the same kind of dimension as the Dimensions of space. Yes, an object passing a planet traces a curved path, but you don’t stare up at a plane and decide that it’s a silver streak in the sky. You take a mental snapshot, flash, a picture of it in a timeless instant. It’s the same with gravity. Take the time-derivative of that curved spacetime. What you get is a gradient.…

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  6. Started by ErlyRisa,

    Time .... Well thier is an Hour Hand, a 2nd and a minute hand. In the computer... it's a 'Frequncy' of switching eg. 4MHz machine. What's it look like in the universe?

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  7. Started by ErlyRisa,

    What is it..? an LED ... is it a mini Cathode Ray TV ? construction of an LED... Two peices of metal... one that has a little more 'chunk' ... the E flows to ..well actually I'm not sure? - the chunk or to the Tip (confusion arises, with actual potentila flow and circuit flow) This 'spark' produces light!!! What G pattern of the material is producing light?

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  8. Started by Ladyhelix,

    Last week a friend of mine sent me a link to 'the secret' secret seminar, I think it was on youtube I took what seemed like hours to watch it and I found it to be the same old same old I was a big fan of Oprahs change your life tv back in the late 90's and bought a shedful of self help books which turned out to be basically saying the same as each other just worded differently I was extremely disappointed to hear that 'the secret' was simply put the law of attraction However, the law of attraction can only get you so far, what you need to make the elite group however is the real secret This is what I beleive to be 'THE REAL SECRET' or should I say 'BOD…

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  9. Started by Robonewt,

    Let me start by saying I am not a physicist, I am just interested in the theoretical ideas of science. I find it amazing that we still have problems defining light, is it a particle, a wave, both or neither. These thoughts I have presented here just look at it from a different angle. I am also no mathematician and so apologise before hand if my explanations appear very simplistic. Ok with that said, let me begin. Light is always compared to water and sound for its wave properties, but considered as a particle because it can travel across a vacuum. Perhaps we should take the comparison closer instead of further away. Let me expand…… Waves on water are caused by …

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  10. Started by ErlyRisa,

    Do you 'READ' people around you like an open book? -When you do 'read' peoples feelings/thoughts... how do you use this information? --Do you use it to ur advantage? ---Do you use it to 'become at one' with the person... thinking on thier wavelength? ----If everybody cared - no-one would die (NickelBack)

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  11. Started by spunnery,

    Let me start without introduction.(Please see attachment for the figures).Let us first go through the first postulate of special relativity. This states that,”Speed of light is same for all observer’s, no matter what their relative speeds are”. It is little bit difficult to disprove this, because of the high speed of light. Let us try for any clue in any experiments that have been already performed. Let us go little deep in to the basic principle of the very same experiment, Michel son & Morley experiment, to find out the presence of Either. Please keep in mind we are analyzing only a part of the basic principle of experiment, and only considering the area of our i…

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  12. Started by soultech,

    From it's beginings pre the big bank when there was relevantic things possible not to rimember and space within the infantile universe was minor and time was irrelevant to our fast paced techno-evolutionar sphere of collective entangled and economically cannabolistic agenda! Like king's of the jungle eco-finacial feding frenzie! the economic prosperity will be marvled and praize in thousands of years to come as brilliance in the form of archetecture, science, monument law, aAND technological achevment in such a thousand long ago bygone era. Fantasti. What can you see of the future my colegues? whatever i a sure ma make heaps of posts with respect to that! ( when i say hee…

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  13. Started by Pre4edgc,

    Ok. It starts like this: Any planet that has any capable release of CO2 will release it. But after just so long, in any atmosphere, it will continue to grow until that planet is full to bursting, and then it does, bursting a hole through the atmosphere and destroying everything on the planet until it's desolate. See what I'm getting at? Our planet has been alive for 4.55 billion years, and for about half of that, or less, life has created CO2. But since we have grown, and destroyed things that reduce it, including the exponential amount of exhaust that we release. Because of this, then the CO2 will reach this critical point, and rupturing the atmosphere, and this is w…

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  14. I've heard both physicists and non-physicists claim that quantum behavior is non-deterministic. As far as I can tell, there are two basic ways this can be argued: We have no deterministic explanation for certain quantum properties, therefore they're non-deterministic. This is an argument from incredulity, and therefore fallacious. That leaves us with: Certain quantum properties appear statistically random. Therefore we conclude they're non-deterministic. However, there is a fundamental assumption here which is wrong. That is: only a non-deterministic process can produce statistically random data. There is a mathematical counterexample to this: th…

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  15. Started by JohnB,

    This post and speculation is based on the result of my general knowledge and a logical thought process. I freely admit to a lack of anything but a basic ( and possibly wrong ) knowledge of gravitational theory. However, using these basics I came to some interesting logical conclusions. Please feel free to correct any mistakes you may find. I'm not putting this missive forward as a theory or even hypothesis, it is merely speculations with ( I think ) rather unusual conclusions. I'll begin with what I understand to be the basic ideas behind Gravitational Theory. 1. Gravity is the force resulting from the exchange of the theoretical/imaginary particles called "…

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  16. Started by foodchain,

    Now there is some debate as to the role of mutation in evolution as just for fun I thought I would start this to see what replies might exist. Lets take an organism, single celled for instance. When the environment is made negative in regards to its fitness the bacteria can go into a hypermutable stage in which mutation allows via population for genetic change to increase the organisms level of fitness. Now I know that this has not been tested for all life or for all bacteria for instance. One of the reasons I think that we can label it hypermutable is simply because the bacteria may not have as much of a genetic load as say a human being for instance, that far less g…

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  17. Started by asprung,

    The "Now" Theory of the Universe Arnold Sprung 3/17/07 "Now" is the moment between the past and the future; it is what we perceive without relying on recollection. The universe (including all matter and energy) only exists "now". Its past has disappeared into "now", and its future has not yet arrived. This does not mean that the universe has vanished, it, so to speak, rolls along with "now" changing as it does so. When we look at light and other signals from the universes past, we see them as they are "now", containing their history i.e. a collection of suggestive “nows”. We are not actually piercing into the past as if w…

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  18. Started by Sadhu,

    The title pretty much says it. I remember when I was 12 or 13, my father used to make lights go out. At first when he told me, I thought he was nuts. So did my mom. But he would walk by certain lights (street lights mostly) and they would always go out. I even remember certain instances where he would point at a light and it would go out. I don't see how anyone could do that with out some sort of a device. In retrospective, I can only speculate with my limited knowledge that it may have been some kind of a weird electro-biological thing where he caused lights to go off. It's the only logical thing I can think of given what I know. That's really all I can say about …

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  19. people have no understanding, i will tell you the truth but thats only if you want to know. first you should learn about genetics and natural selection. your own people hind the truth from you. after you read this, instead of debating get knowledge. read and learn , and then sort out the information . today's theories are that the white came about because moving north, because of less uv light, false, by the way im not that good in spelling or punctuation's --theories are : their is a natural mutation in the genes of human that causes lighter skin. the mutation rate in this gene is the same for all races ,african,euoupean, etc, but they claim that the mutation in this gen…

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  20. the whole theory rest on the idea that what an atom truly is a nucleus of all neutrons which sit in a field of dark matter. when the neutrons' gravitation pulls in the dark matter and makes them spin like planets it negatively charges the dark matter and positively charges some of the neutrons. much like how when you send electricity through a coil it creates a magnetic field. relativity: i personally think that some of Einsteins equations were slightly off. only because he didn't know about dark matter- and there is no way he could have, but that his theories and there interpretations are still valid. i think what is truly constant in the universe is the rate at w…

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  21. Started by Farsight,

    Energy is generally misunderstood. Our schoolroom textbooks tell us that energy is the capacity to do work, and work is the transfer of energy. The words go round in circles without getting to the heart of it, and children grow into adults with no clear concept of what energy is. Let’s start by saying that energy is the property of a thing. It is not a thing in its own right. To illustrate this, I can talk about a red balloon, a red bus, or a red red ruby. All these things have the property that we call red. A thing can be red, but you cannot remove this red and hold it in your hand. You can remove the paint or the dye and hold that in the palm of your hand, but you’…

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  22. Hi all, I asked myself is it possible to mechanically join two steel balls together ie using only their movement and no other forces. I came to the conclusion no, due to the 3rd Law of Motion, they would push each other apart the instant they came into contact. For nothing more than fun, I asked the question another way, what would need to happen? The only answer I could come up with (other than changing the shape from a ball to an open ring) was a movement that clearly breaches the Laws of Motion. Although I knew that this movement couldn’t happen, I was fascinated by the concept it lead to, a physical structure that appeared to behave in a similar way to how I und…

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  23. Started by RebTevye,

    The Origin & Future Of Intelligence WGA Registration Number: 1185858 Written By: Giorgio Martoni http://www.infinitytree.org/ The universe has all of eternity to make life, In fact it will not only do it once but an infinity times, in every possible combination. I mention the word (Time) only to help explain some theories so they can be more understood by the mainstream. It is my current conjecture that time is a creation of comparison, and it is merely a state in which the position of matter in space has changed & the mind of human beings can recognize that change. It seems as if there is much dualism involved in the way that things work…

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  24. How do you guys think you would fare in a post apocalyptic world? Just imagine, civilization and organized society has suddenly been wiped out, and you and a few survivors must make the best of things...

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  25. Started by MolotovCocktail,

    How do you guys think we'll fare if aliens were to suddenly invade the Earth and take it over? It seems a little silly, but I know that it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility. Plus, I think that the sci-fi depictions of it are rather corny and have unrealistic, cheap-shot solutions to it too. Personally, I know for certain that we will probably get stomped on by their vastly superior technology in the event of an alien invasion.

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